Antique Map of Solomon's Purveyorships in Israel, Wyld, 1823

This is an original antique copper engraved map with original hand coloring, published in 1823 as plate XXI of James Wyld's Geographia Sacra, or Scripture Atlas. The engraved title reads "LAND OF ISRAEL Shewing the PURVEYORSHIPS in the Reign of SOLOMON. 1. Kings, Chap. 4." The title is engraved without a frame in the lower right of the map, with a scale of British miles beneath it.

The land is drawn from Lebanon and Damascus at the top to Edom and the Amalekites at the bottom, with the "MEDITERRANEAN or GREAT SEA" along the left. The districts are outlined with colored border washes in pink, yellow, blue and green, and their names are lettered across the hachured hills on both sides of the Jordan. Mount Carmel juts into the sea at the left, Mount Hermon and the Abarim Mountains are named on the east, and the Jordan runs down the center into the Dead Sea, with Zoar marked at its southern end. The lower border reads "Longitude East 35 from Greenwich".

Below the lower border the credit J. Wyld del. is engraved at the left and G. Neele Sculp. at the right, with the imprint between them: "Publish'd by G. & W. B. Whittaker; Ave Maria Lane, April, 1823." The plate number is engraved as XXI. in the upper right.

The atlas was published by G. and W. B. Whittaker in London, and its engraved title page names Wyld as "of the Quarter Master General's Office, Horse Guards". James Wyld the elder (1790 to 1836) was a London geographer and map publisher.

Even age toning. Marked handling soiling along the bottom, right and top edges. A few small foxing spots in the margin. A small hole in the lower left margin. Minor nicks along the right edge. Several larger brown marks.

This is an original antique map, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed.